Update: Bloons TD 6 v47.0 - Update Notes!
Available now for most platforms please restart your storefront or be patient if it does not appear for you, these updates can take some time to be rolled out to every region due to how the storefronts are set up.
Key New Features - Legends
- Legends heralds a new way of looking at designing and building updates for BTD6. The team has so many exciting ideas, many of which could be full standalone games, and Legends gives us a way to push forward with groundbreaking ideas while maintaining the continuity of BTD6 and its awesome community.
- These DLC should be separate and unique enough not to feel required but to offer a very alternate way of playing. We will continue to focus on a huge variety of content that players get at no additional cost to the base game, but as these features get bigger and bigger, the team does need to keep new IAPs and DLCs coming into the game to support future development.
Rogue Legends!
You’re gonna want to turn your sound on for this one! The first Legend available along with this update is a BTD rogue-lite adventure, featuring a randomly generated replayable single player campaign.
- Build a party as you progress through the campaign; with a hero, up to 10 accompanying pre-crosspathed towers, and Artifacts to enhance their power
- More than 10 unique hand-crafted tile based campaign maps to explore
- Campaign maps featuring multiple paths to plan your own route through to the world, then take on a multi round Stage Boss
- Featuring an all new, fast-paced Rogue Bloons roundset to learn and master (new hints included!)
- Challenge tiles with alternate conditions featuring Boss Rush, Races, Endurance Races & Least Cash; these are optional to play & but grant scaling rewards based on performance to boost your team through their journey, also no lives will be lost from your first attempt on any of these tiles so feel free to trial them!
- Merchants & Campfires to engage in trades and enhance your party
- Collect from over 60 unique Artifacts as you progress through the campaign, boosting towers with incredible power ups & unique mechanics
- Make impactful choices mid-game with temporary Boosts choices that last until the end of the current match including stat buffs, insta-monkeys & powers. Bad options? No problem - reroll them for in game cash
- Defeat the Stage Boss to find Legendary boss-only artifacts & extract any artifact from the current game to earn a permanent copy that can be applied right from the start of a new Campaign
- Stage Boss defeated & want to keep going? Continue through up to 5 stages of increasing difficulty, and unlock the endless CHIMPS campaign.
- Obtain Rogue Legend cosmetics on purchase & earned through full campaign gameplay
Check out our video rundown on Rogue Legends here: https://youtu.be/NerXoyaPCgg
Legends - Community Questions
- We have seen quite a few common questions among the community so we’d like to try and answer as many of them as possible!
- Why paid DLC?
- We are dedicated to continuing to support and create free updates and content for the base game. Beyond that, for update ideas that deliver standalone content, require huge amounts of work, and would be creatively constrained by trying to fund them through Monkey Money, we need to rely on IAP and DLC paid models to fund the development.
New Awesome
- New Hero Skin, Rosalia Tinkerfairy
- The tinkering-est fairy around has come to play!
Game Changes / Additions
- Accessibility options now includes alternate tower range circles with High Contrast & Color Blind options
- Accessibility options now includes an Ambient Map Effects on/off toggle
- Quests will no longer track all profile stats (You can now happily keep 0 powers used, and we can make more quests using powers)
- Pips will now appear in editor leading players to paths that have errors
Bug Fixes & General Changes
- Resolved a scrolling issue with the Odyssey editor map-edit UI
- Ace Centered Path 'Advanced' hotkey will bring up the centered path position placement
- Super Monkey Storm & Thrive powers should correctly count to victory screen stats
- Resolved a crash that could occur when attempting to delete a custom Odyssey
- Sniper chameleon pet now transitions its color changes more smoothly
- Resolved a crash that could occur when reconnecting on co-op after starting the game during an internet disconnection
- When toggling ‘Show Variants’ the selected prop (if any) should remain visible in the scroll panel
- Quincy should no longer fall stuck endlessly screaming at the player in a loop when closing the pause menu while adjusting hero volume
Event changes
- The Rewards sub-section of the Boss Leaderboards UI should no longer break when attempting to view it post-game
- Resolved an issue in which the leaderboard could fail to load scores
- Resolved an issue where track length speed multiplier was not calculating correctly for multi-path tracks
- Resolved an issue where other player CT scores wouldn’t appear on your teams roster until the CT World UI is viewed
Map Specific changes
- Damaged Ceramics should no longer display beneath waterfalls on Adora’s Temple
- Resolved Ice Monkey Snowstorm Layering Issues on the Ancient Portals map
Tower Specific Fixes
Mermonkey
- 4xx Abyss Dweller should no longer slow Lead Bloons without the correct damage type
- xx4 Totems should no longer be considered overclock targets
Engineer
- 200 Sentries when un-crosspathed should no longer deal bonus damage to MOABs
- xx5 Bloontrap Cooldown should no longer break depending on upgrade order
Hero Specific Fixes
Geraldo
- Resolved an issue where Dart Monkeys that were turned into Super Monkeys with Geraldo’s cape item would sell themselves immediately when an interactable next to them is used to show or hide something.
- Geraldo’s action figure should no longer sometimes fail to increment price until 2nd round end after placement
Corvus
- Resolved a crash with the Echo spell being used while Corvus is standing on Water
- Resolved an edge case crash that probably doesn’t even happen unless you’re doing a handstand while playing
Platform Specific fixes
- Resolved a game softlock when attempting to login via Twitch
- : Game should no longer fail to localize when player selects Chinese (Traditional) Profile as default on initial launch
- : No longer displays a grey screen on launch
Balance Changes
Tower Balance
Rogue Legends took up nearly all of our balance time for this update, however as we know many players look forward to the balance changes each update we’ve included a quick list of simpler changes that shouldn’t be too game breaking. Also get me pictures of spider monkeys!
Dart Monkey
Shuffle on lower tier upgrade costs & increased attack speed across middle path in order to offer these upgrades more value both in and out of Super Monkey Fan Club transformation.
- 2xx Razor Sharp Shots price reduced from $220 > 200
- 3xx Spike-o-pult price increased from $300 > 320
- x3x Triple Shot price increased from $400 > 450
- x3x Triple Shot also reduces attack cooldown 25%
- x4x Super Monkey Fan Club price reduced from $7500 > 7200
- x4x Super Monkey Fan Club reduces attack cooldown further 25% > 50%
- xx3 Crossbow price reduced from $625 > 575
- xx4 Sharpshooter price increased from $2000 > 2050
Boomerang Monkey
While the higher tier upgrades work well, Bionic Boomerang is often not as effective as expected for this price range.
- x3x Bionic Boomerang price reduced from $1450 > 1250
Bomb Shooter
Nudging Bloon Impact price down, pushing it more in line with other early support options & as this is a support path. Frag damage is being greatly improved all the way up as there’s little reason to trade stun uptime for improved damage. Moving some cost up into MOAB Assassin so Maulers have more leeway early game & en masse. Cutting down roughly 10% on all bottom path upgrade costs as especially on Bomb Blitz even after recent buffs there are many downsides that need to be covered to use this path effectively.
- 4xx Bloon Impact price reduced from $3200 > 2800
- 202 Frag Bombs damage increased from 1 > 2
- 302 Really Big Bombs frag damage increased from 3 > 6
- 502 Bloon Crush frag damage increased from 24 > 36
- x3x MOAB Mauler price reduced from $1100 > 1000
- x4x MOAB Assassin price increased from $3350 > 3450
- xx3 Cluster Bombs price reduced from $800 > 700
- xx4 Recursive Cluster price reduced from $2800 > 2500
- xx5 Bomb Blitz price reduced from $25500 > 23,000
Ice Monkey
A long time coming - Absolute Zero will finally be able to slow MOAB-Class Bloons within its radius, and additionally the main attack while it can’t initiate attacks without Bloons in radius will freeze non MOAB-Class Bloons over the entire screen for a short time! Nudging bottom path Ice Monkey to keep up with similarly priced support options, and Icicles especially doesn't feel versatile enough, which limits chances to go down this path so it is gaining the attack rate increase from the T5.
- x5x Absolute Zero wind slow aura slows MOABs in radius 20%
- x5x Absolute Zero’s attack gains a second radius freezing one layer of non-MOAB Class Bloons anywhere on the map for 0.75s
- xx3 Cryo Cannon price reduced from $1950 > 1750
- xx4 Icicles attack cooldown reduced from 1s > 0.75
- xx5 Icicle Impale unchanged
Glue Gunner
Improved Ceramic Damage scaling up Bloon Dissolver compared to other support options, and a small price shuffling to make Glue Hose more favourable on the journey up to Glue Strike.
- 3xx Bloon Dissolver bonus damage to Ceramic increased from 1 > 2
- 4xx Bloon Liquefier unchanged
- x3x Glue Hose price reduced from $2100 > 1950
- x4x Glue Strike price increased from $3850 > 4000
Monkey Sub
Price reductions for Energizer to reduce the cost of related build synergies. Armour Piercing Darts subs are generally a tough choice as even though their single target damage is greatly improved the pierce is lacking for the cost, so price has been reduced at T4 and T5 has been granted extra airbursts to make it more desirable an upgrade for dealing with higher pierce itself
- 5xx Energizer price reduced from $31,000 > 28,000
- xx4 Armor Piercing Darts price reduced from $3000 > 2500
- xx5 Sub Commander number of airbursts increased from 3 > 5
Monkey Buccaneer
We’re currently happy with Pirate Lord, but Monkey Pirates has been hit hard by changes so cost is being pushed out of it to encourage multi mid path building.
- x4x Monkey Pirates price reduced from $4900 > 3900
- x5x Pirate Lord price increased from $26,000 > 27,000
Monkey Ace
Upgrades to the basic Bombing run are never why you move up this path, so we’re improving these across the board while also reducing the cooldown of Ground Zero to match the T5.
- x4x Ground Zero ability cooldown reduced from 45s > 35s
- x4x Ground Zero bombing run damage increased from 10 > 15
- x5x Tsar Bomba bombing run damage increased from 15 > 30
Heli Pilot
We’re raising move speed for Apache Dartship up to match Prime to improve skillful use in some more difficult situations mainly assisting on spread path maps
- 4xx Apache Dartship max move speed increased from 50 > 60
- 5xx Apache Prime unchanged
Mortar Monkey
Improvements made for the underused damage over time crosspaths, and improved damage for the T4 as it’s effective at what it does but not so versatile outside of shredding metal bands.
- 4xx The Big One damage increased from 8 > 10
- 402 The Big One damage over time increased from 7 > 12
- 502 The Biggest One damage over time increased from 60 > 65
- 032 Heavy Shells damage over time increased from 3 > 4
- 042 Artillery Battery damage over time increased 4 > 6
- xx4 Shattering Shells MOAB Burn damage increased 10 > 20
Dartling Gunner
Pushing around price for the underperforming T3, and pushing up the price further on the MAD that excels in MOAB destruction.
- x3x Hydra Rocket Pods price reduced from $4800 > $4500
- x4x Rocket Storm price reduced from $5550 > $5850
- x5x MAD price increased from $60,000 > 65,000
Wizard Monkey
Archmage still seems to prefer the 502 crosspathing, so the fire attacks are being taken even further. Summon phoenix falls off in single target fairly early so we are lowering the cost back again to bring back options to let it fly before it has to deal with so many stronger targets. Shimmer struggles as a de-camo option due to the low consistency, so the attack rate is being improved.
- 52x Archmage fireball bonus to MOAB-Class increased from 27 > 36
- 52x Archmage wall of fire bonus to MOAB-Class increased from 4 > 8
- 5xx Archmage dragon's breath bonus to MOAB-Class increased from 6 > 10
- x4x Summon Phoenix price reduced from $7000 > 6000
- x5x WLP dragon’s breath attack damage over time increased from 10 > 30
- x5x WLP dragon’s breath damage over time duration increased from 3s > 15s
- xx3 Shimmer camo pulse attack cooldown reduced from 2.5s > 2s
Ninja Monkey
Master Bomber is janky to build for given the high cost and the fuse time limits how much single target damage it can do as well, so we’ve given a massive rate boost to the sticky attack.
- xx5 Master Bomber sticky bomb attack cooldown reduced from 4.5s > 2.25
Alchemist
Middle path alchemists have complicated use cases that don’t bring enough of a payoff for the effort so the price is being reduced. Instead of being only a niche income source, the Rubber to Gold debuff is being reworked to now expire after a duration but for that duration it will nullify Bloon properties. Some seriously interesting build options from this.
- x3x Unstable Concoction price reduced from $3000 > 2800
- x4x Transforming Tonic price reduced from $4500 > 4200
- xx4 Rubber to Gold duration reduced from MAX > 7s
- xx4 Rubber to Gold debuff also disables Lead property for duration
- xx4 Rubber to Gold debuff also disables Black property for duration
- xx4 Rubber to Gold debuff also disables White property for duration
- xx4 Rubber to Gold debuff also disables Purple property for duration
Druid
Not a huge change on its own, but reduced price should add up and shave off some spending for full Poplust setups.
- xx4 Poplust price reduced from $2500 > 2350
Mermonkey
Middle path pierce was lacking all through to T5, so pierce is now being matched to T5 across the path. Symphonic Resonance is powerful, but Alluring Melody is inconsistent for a Bloon-only stall, so pierce here is also being matched up to the same as T4.
- x3x Riptide Champion pierce increased from 12 > 18
- x4x Arctic Knight pierce increased from 12 > 18
- x5x Popseidon pierce unchanged
- xx3 Alluring Melody trance pierce increased from 3 > 4
Spike Factory
After much deliberation we still don’t particularly feel like making any large overhauls to the popular Permaspike upgrade right now, so we have decided that in order to follow through on this vision the best course of action would be to not do anything. This lack of attempt to make any change should in theory prevent any alterations from occurring to this particular upgrade in this update and thus leaves Permaspike extremely similar as to how it currently is. For now.
- xx5 Permaspike unchanged
Engineer
This was becoming annoying screen clutter with large numbers of sentries, and feels unnecessary when you can overclock the engineer itself to create more sentries instead.
- Sentries can no longer be targeted for Overclock
Beast Handler
As a quality of life improvement, Beast Handler movement cooldowns have now been separated
- Fish & Dino upgrades now have individual repositioning cooldowns
Hero Balance
Gwendolin
Taking the opportunity to invest in some fire & water synergy
- Lv9 Burn duration increased +1s per level
Obyn Greenfoot
As Benjamin & Geraldo dominate the main income strategies we want to push up another hero choice into the income mix, as Obyn’s druid benefits are currently applied the least effectively to middle path Druid we’re starting this off by giving a Cash Generation boost for Jungle’s Bounty.
- Lv5 also grants increased income to Jungle’s Bounty ability used within radius +20%
Captain Churchill
Given how hard it is to get to high levels with Churchill, the Barrage ability needs much more high level payoff.
- Lv13 MOAB Barrage damage increased from 200 > 250
- Lv17 MOAB Barrage damage increased from 200 > 500
- Lv20 MOAB Barrage damage increased from 500 > 1000
Benjamin
Early income snowballing has shifted favour greatly over to Geraldo, so Ben’s baseline cash generation is being increased more.
- Lv1 Cash Generation increased from 80 > 90
- Lv2 Cash Generation increased from 120 > 140
Rosalia
Rosalia doesn't fly strongly into high rounds so she is gaining more direct Grenade pierce, and Adrenaline Rush’s maximum is increasing to scale up into larger groups of Bloons.
- Lv2 Grenade pierce increased from 8 > 10
- Lv13 Grenade Cluster pierce increased from 8 > 10
- Lv4 Adrenaline Rush max stacks increased from 20 > 25
- Lv11 Adrenaline Rush max stacks increased from 30 > 40
- Lv17 Adrenaline Rush max stacks increased from 40 > 60
Bosses
Blastapopoulos
Especially at lower tiers, Blastapopoulos' stuns are quite unforgiving, so we’ve lowered the baseline stun duration & scaled this up over the tiers instead of starting off so high immediately.
- Heat Bar no longer fills immediately on Boss Spawn
- Stun durations reduced
- Overheating initial stun duration reduced from 5s > 4s
- T1 Fireball stun duration reduced from 4s > 2s
- T2 Fireball stun duration reduced from 4s > 2s
- T3 Fireball stun duration reduced from 4s > 3s
- T4 Fireball stun duration reduced from 4s > 3s
- T5 Fireball stun duration reduced from 4s > 3s
Dreadbloon
- T3 Elite Rock Bloons health reduced from 10,000 > 9,000
- Rock Bloons now scale with boss HP/Speed modifiers
Looking Forward
Usually our first update for the year is a humble offering, but Rogue Legends in 47.0 gets 2025 off to a massive start, and we have big plans for the rest of the year. A huge part of our planning each year leans into what the team is excited to work on, and we have two experiences to share. The first is Legends itself, which saw the team working together in a whole new way, pushing art styles, design thinking, and code framework in untried directions and pushing ourselves to do some of our best work yet. The second was our end-of-year retrospective when we got very excited brainstorming new Monkeys of all kinds (Towers, Heroes, NPCs), which reminded us how much we enjoy the raw game mechanics and personalities that start with the Monkeys themselves. We hope to carry this inspiration throughout 2025 and beyond to create awesome updates that give you new ways to play, new challenges, and rich rewards for the time you share with this game we love making so much. Thank you for your continued support!
- Legends
- We hope everyone loves Rogue Legends and finds the DLC cost more than fair for the dozens of hours of replayable and progressive gameplay. Having new IAPs and DLCs is the best way for us to continue to deliver other big updates that don’t require additional spend. We won’t be satisfied unless players find the prices fair and the game experience rewarding, so we’ll be responsive to feedback.
- As discussed when we first mentioned Legends last year, we are planning 2 Legends DLC campaigns per year (not counting Rogue, which was planned for last year). So some teasers…
- Desperado Legends - explore the Monkey Wild West within a map that dynamically reacts to your actions and allows other customizations. Go fishing, watch Bloon races, recruit posse members, hunt bounties, and go after the targets on the Most Wanted list. Highly stylized and replayable, planned for mid-year.
- Runic Legends - an epic crafting/modding-focused campaign, taking the raw elements of Monkey Knowledge and Artifacts and putting them in player’s hands. Find individual elements and combine them to create Monkeys with specializations far beyond their crosspaths. Get ready for mod-inspired madness with custom rounds to handle the power creep.
We hope that sounds like a fun year ahead! As always, let us know what you think, as our discussion with our awesomer player community is one of the things we love most about building games. Cheers to 2025 and beyond!